I couldn't be more excited about a feature release than this one.
Combining branching with realtime multiplayer was a huge technical and UX challenge, and the team has been relentless in their pursuit of a seamless solution.
1/n
Combining branching with realtime multiplayer was a huge technical and UX challenge, and the team has been relentless in their pursuit of a seamless solution.
1/n
https://twitter.com/figmadesign/status/1447964299570393088
Why is this hard? On an engineering level, writing code for Figma can sometimes feel like a distributed computing problem.
Multiple networked clients are making changes to a single data representation which needs to eventually sync up.
2/n
Multiple networked clients are making changes to a single data representation which needs to eventually sync up.
2/n
Now throw into the mix the notion of multiple versions of that data representation, along with user expectations for how you can see the different versions, merge between them, etc.
It's hard to make this all feel seamless, and the team has done a great job!
3/n
It's hard to make this all feel seamless, and the team has done a great job!
3/n
This is just the beginning and you'll see more improvements to branching down the road. It will be interesting to see how people use it!
4/4
4/4
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